Sandy is a successful, results oriented entrepreneur and robotics/automation expert.  Through his leadership of multiple significant automation projects. One of these automation projects was the first fully automated reactor construction robot ever deployed anywhere in the world. Sandy Wilson served as the program manager and design S.M.E. from 2022 until 2025 where the tool was used for the first time in Bruce reactor Unit 3 to achieve the fastest Calandria Tube (CT) replacement as well as the highest quality CT replacement ever on any CANDU reactor refurbishment internationally. Furthermore, the project was pulled ahead by 18 months to reactor Unit 3 from the original deployment plan of reactor Unit 4. Nuclear energy is critical to reducing greenhouse gases, but the cost to build and refurbish has to come down for widespread adoption. Sandy has had a significant, positive, and direct impact on the risk and costs of nuclear refurbishment of CANDU reactors internationally, thereby diverting investment from fossil fuel energy production into nuclear power in CANDU/derivative reactor countries: Canada, Korea, Argentina, Romania, China, and India. Sandy previously worked at MDA space missions as an engineer on the Canadarm and its associated robotics, initiated with his degree in Aerospace engineering.

 

Out of a love of construction and renovation (Sandy's main business outside of Bruce Power), Sandy identified a significant problem with buildings constructed prior to the 1980s: many of these buildings still have single pane windows and the insulating value achieved are a major source of energy loss. In particular, large office building with high window to wall ratios can lose as much as 40% of their heating energy through their windows. However, replacing single pane windows in large commercial buildings can cost up to $100M and is far from economic – and so it rarely gets done.  Sandy has developed a solution that is an order of magnitude lower cost than full replacement, which should drive widespread adoption to help address climate change. 

 

Sandy is the CEO of TwinGlaze, a cost-effective commercial grade solution to dramatically improve the insulating value of existing commercial building windows. Optimized around manufacturing and installation economics, TwinGlaze is delivering products to customers with a payback period of less than 10 years without subsidy or government incentives. Driven by economics, widespread and rapid adoption of the product will reduce the average CO2 emissions from heating of commercial buildings by roughly 200 tons/year per 100,000 square feet or 180 Million tons of CO2 per year from the US alone (~3% of emissions).